Salmon: County Neglected

JL fit? OLULtf t\SSVTTlViy JKUW ED: NOTE: Republican state Assemblyman Guy F. Muziani, 58, of Wildwood and Joseph CHinnici, S4-. of Bridgeton are running for reelection this fall.. Opposing them are Democrats Jeanne Gorman, 45, vice president of the Ocean City board of education, and Edward H, Salmon, 40, a Cumberland County Freeholder and Millville educator. This week, the Herald and Lantern profile the thallengers; next week — the incumbents.

Gorman: A Woman’s Perspeetive

“It’s important to have bipartisan representation to get our fair share for the area,” Democratic Assembly candidate Edward H. Salmon contends. He‘s running as "A proven, effective leader. “We’vfc, lacked a very effective legislator from the First District,” he com plained, arguing that his record as a gogetter — coupled with his party credentials — will bring home the bacon to Cape May and Cumberland counties from the

EDWARD H. SALMON

Democratically-controlled statehouse As Salmon sees it, both counties need to develop job opportunities by promoting tourism, '-the seafood and fishing industries: provide better transportation, and more backing for over-regulated businesses and industries so they can expand, hire more employes', and attract other firms. ' TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS, the candidate said. First District constituents need .some clout on the Joint Appropriations Committee — clout that Republican Assemblyman Muziani and Chinnici lack even though Chinnici has served on that Democratic stronghold for 12 years. As a Democrat, Salmon added, be can offer the First District that doitt. Muziani has complained that New Jersey spends far less on tourism than many other states, worse, the Legislature cut Gov. Thomas Kean's proposed tourism appropriations. Salmon said be, as a Democrat in his party's turf, stand a better chance of making sure Cape May County gets a bigger piece of the appropriations pie in the future. r ‘I feel that this is one area that has been neglected,” he added, referring to the commercial fishing industry and the incumbent Assemblymen’s shallow commitments to it. He wants to promote overseas sales of domestic seafood by (Page 20 Please)

Jeanne Gorman knows how to get out the vote for a Democrat ip a county where Republicans have oiitregistered Democrats for years by more than twoone and independent voters have only a slightly smaller edge. The Democratic Assembly candidate started in local politics as volunteer coordinator for Congressman Bill Hughes when be first beat" former U.S Rep. Charles Sandman Jr. in 1974. Many polibeans from both major parties wrote off the victory as a Watergaterelated quirk but, with Gorman's help, Hughes won re-election in 76, 78, '80 and '82. Gorman served as volunteer coordinator in the first two re-election bids and. as campaign director in the latter two. “It was a challenge and I loved it;” Gorman said of the behind-the-scenes campaign work BEHIND THE SCENES in her cam paign is the congressional mentor who advised her to seek an Assembly seat rather than run for county freeholder, she said. “I would take a lesson from Bill Hughes,” Gorman added, referring to his reputation for constituent service. She sees an obvious lack in constituent concern from Assemblymen Muziani and Chinnici and plans to provide it if elected by simply "trying to find solutions to peoples' problems. "Nobody really knows what they’re do-

ing until thii time of year when you see a lot of things in the newspapers,” Gorman continued, criticizing Muziani and Chinnici for pre-election publicity. "Moat of them ( voters) don’t know Chinnici at afl.” In the four-way Assembly race, the two top vote-getters win elecUons "What it comes down to is name recognition," according to Gorman, who is trying to get her name before the voters through door-to-

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News—— Digest Kories Mayor to Mayor AVALON — Avalon Mayor Rachel Sloan reached into a basket Sunday night to pick 10 of 20 winners'of the annual Stone Harbor Lions Club .raffle to benefit the Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children Hie first name she pulled? Her predecessor as Avalon mayor — Ellsworth Armacost.

To ten Meeting CAPE MAY — City officials hope to schedule a “town meeting” in November to discuss priorities in dealing with the huge crowds of tourists experienced this summer. Among concerns: Parking and traffic jams that could hinder police, fire, and rescue vehicles.

Deadline Approaches COURT HOUSE — Cape May County board of elections is open from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. today through Friday and next Tuesday, Oct. 11, the final day to register in order to vote Nov. 8. That deadline also applies to filing change of address or name. Hie board is located at Route 9 and Dennisvilie Road, at the rear of the Murphy Mart Shopping Center. When the books closed in April for the June primary election, the county had 46,920 registered voters: 22,472 Republican, 8,866 Democrat, 15,541 no party, and 41 independent

Latest Attempt

. CAPE MAY — City police and the county prosecutor are warning women not to walk unescorted here in the wake • of the most recent sexual assault attempt early Thursday morning at a Decatur Street parking lot just north of the Washington Street Mall. A 24-year-old woman escaped a knife-weilding abductor around l a.m.,police reported Friday. The incident is similar to several of six other assaults or attempted assaults in the vicinity since July 25. (Page 3 Please)

In the Unemployment Line

Season

register for a job and accept it if it’s offered. The exceptions are union members who nohnally get their jobs through‘hinng halls, and persons only temporarily laid off. If others turn.down a "suitable” job. they can be disqualified for four weeks of unemployment THE LAZY need not panic. The state's definition of "suitable” can give one several reasons to refuse work: inadequate, pay, excessive distance ( "not more than 25-30 miles,” said Kelly, who travels 75 miles to work), and job duties inconsistent with one’s work history (Page 3 Please i

It’s Time

\ By JOE ZELNIK WILDWOOD — Hie annual turnaround 3s under way in this resort county. Just a few days ago, lines of tourists formed at dusk outside restaurants and clubs. Now it’s local residents queuing in the morning at the rate of a hundred a day to file initial claims at the state Unempfoyment insurance office. By early next year, it's safe to guess that some 9,000 countians will be unemployed, and more than half of them collecting unemployment insurance. The "season” is just beginning at New Jersey and Spicer avenues where the Unemployment Insurance division- head-

ed by Scott Kelly, added three part-time persons last week to its permanent staff of 12, and three more this week He said about a thousand persons collected unemployment in the county last month EVEN THE JOB SERVICE division, headed by Frank Szymanski, although its list of available jobs is shrinking like a cotton tee shirt, faces an avalanche of.work Hie reason is a new requirement for this year’s claimants: universal registration. Formerly called mandatory registration, this program atrophied in the 70s, but is in full bloom again. With two exceptions, the person who expects to collect unemployment will have to

For Kristi Coombs Another Opening, Another Show

By EJ.DUFFY NORTH CAPE MAY - As a teenager/ looking for the love she was denied as a child, Norma Jean conjures the vision of that lonely little girl in her mind Watching the sad figure, waiting in front of her aunt’s house for a ride to yet another “home," Norma Jean vows never to be lonely-and unwanted again. She looks for love from the crowds, of fans who come to idolize her as Marilyn Monroe. "People always love movie stars,” she reasons. Her story, "Marilyn: An American Fable,” comes to life next month on Broadway in the Minskoff Theater at 45th

Street. The cast of the musical includes Gerilyn Pelchel as the tennage Marilyn with Kristi Coombs of North Cape May starring as the younger Norma Jean KRISTI, 11, a sixth grader at Consolidated School, Cold Spring, when she’s home, was home with her mother Saturday to join the family at their Gorham Avenue home before beginning two hectic weeks of final rehearsals Sunday. The family includes Hristi’s dad. Russell, a driver-salesmarf for the Coca Cola bottling plant in Manpora; mother, Josie, her traveling companion; Kristi’s twin, Eric; her older'brothers, Kevin, 13, Rus, 18; and her pet dog, Shelton

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Shelton was a gift from Reed Shelton who portrayed "Daddy Warbucks” in the Broadway hit "Annie," “so, I named it after him,” Kristi explained She played the title role in “Annie” dur ing the Second National Touring Company’s circuit of Atlanta. New Orleans, Kansas City, Minneapolis. Las Vegas. Hawaii. Philadelphia and Boston between December and August last year "She started as ‘Molly' when she was seven-years-old," Josie Coombs noted. " ‘Molly,’ -in ‘Annie,’ is the youngest of the orphans ” AS "MOLLY,” KKISITI played Detroit, iPage 3 Please)